Olivia Spring
Maine-based writer / editor / reader / maker
founder & editor of SICK, a magazine by chronically ill & disabled people
selected work
SICK issue 3, Bruises (and the white line on my thigh), August 2021
It’s Nice That, Working in the creative industries with chronic illness, May 2020
Rekto: Verso, Letter from the editor, June 2021
FDBNHLLLTTFEXCESS, three poems, October 2020
The Grapevine, Hot Summer, August 2020
Ache issue 2, On the 171, July 2019
[smiths], Interview: Tracey Emin, May 2016
my favorite books
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Assembly by Natasha Brown
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Happening by Annie Ernaux
Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
The Undying by Anne Boyer
Care Work by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
interviews & reviews
MagCulture, At Work With, September 2022
Design by Women, SICK interview, September 2022
Creative Review, Sick magazine doesn’t sugar-coat stories of illness and disability, August 2022
Eye On Design, a frank conversation about chronic illness and creativity, July 2022
magCulture, review of issue 2, August 2020
Stack, review of issue 2, August 2020
New York Times, 28 Ways to Learn About Disability Culture, July 2020
education
Goldsmiths, University of London BA (Hons) journalism, class of 2018
Intern at the Guardian Weekend and Marie Claire magazine, 2019 & 2017
Write like a Grrrl, fiction writing courses, 2019 & 2020
other stuff
Represented by Seren Adams of United Agents
Indiecon festival travel grant recipient, September 2022
Monson Arts resident, September 2021
Member of Resting up Collective, an interdisciplinary group of chronically ill and disabled friends practicing slowness/crip time to create, think, and interrupt neoliberal pressures and expectations on the body
